Published by Edward Stanford, 55, Charing Cross' for 'Stanford's Geographical Establishment. Circa 1880. In 1711, John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, paid £17,000 for what was called the Marylebone estate. At the time it was still a quiet country village with a small number of houses dotted along the high street. The Duke died a few months after his purchase and the estate passed to his daughter, Henrietta Cavendish-Holles who two years later married Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford. As London expanded rapidly westwards, Lord and Lady Oxford commissioned the architect John Prince to draw up a plan to convert their fields into a fashionable city estate, with Cavendish Square at its focal point.
Approx 21cms by 17cms.
